When he entered Grenobles at 11pm on Tuesday 7 March, the local
fonctionnaires (town officials) tried to appease him by offering to
put him up at the Préfecture, but Napoleon - true to his genius for
public relations - instead chose to stay in a hotel run by one of
his old military guides, named Labarre, called l'Hôtel Les Trois
Dauphins, today the Auberge Napoleon in rue Montorge. He was put in
Room No 2, which rather prompts the question of who was important
enough for No 1?